Check this web graphic out from Six Revisions. It’s slightly comical, but also has some interesting points of information.
What Your Web Design Says About You
The Original post can be found here:
http://sixrevisions.com/infographics/what-your-web-design-says-about-you-infographic/
For 414, I have decided to brand our class/agency
we are the “414 Awesome Design Squad”
As the wind and cold descends on Oswego, I start up another semester at SUNY Oswego.
This semester I will be teaching Web 1 – ART 317 as both a traditional and as a hybrid course, along with Web Design 2 -ART 417 and Graduate Web Design – ART 517 as a hybrid course. Additionally, I am teaching Graphic Design Practicum – ART 414.
My office hours will be Thursdays, 3-5 in Lanigan 35B. Please make an appointment to see me if this time is not workable with your schedule.
Here’s to another semester! May this be the best one yet!
So I haven’t ran my class blog in many moons, as I switched providers and lost much of the content I had once posted on this blog. That and also moving onto ANGEL for most of the coursework.
This semester/year however will be different, as I have decided to bring the blog back to life, and to have my students adding content to a blog I am hosting, which you’ll find in the navigation. Hopefully this system will work much better than the disparate blogs i had them running the last time I did a blog assignment.
What’s funny is that I made this blog theme when I first started teaching full time at Oswego 3 years ago. I have to admit,t he way i hacked into the theme then to get things to work and now what I can do with editing themes are completely different. I can definitely see my mistakes from before.
maybe I’ll get ambitious at some point and spruce it up.
Found a really good article on cover letters that might be good for posting on your class website or on Angel
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/25/what-makes-a-great-cover-letter-according-to-companies/
haven’t read the whole thing yet but what I read was really good advice.
Thanks Jon LaPlante
For those interested in HTML 5, here’s a nice checklist of items that are supported by the various browsers.
http://www.findmebyip.com/litmus/#target-selector
Note: Internet Explorer does not support much of anything with HTML 5 and CSS 3. It’s best to avoid using these technologies until there is better support. Otherwise, you’ll have to create a separate style sheet just for IE
For those interested in HTML 5. Though we aren’t teaching it as of yet within the web curriculum, it does have some interesting new features to look into for future reference.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/04/designing-a-html-5-layout-from-scratch/
One thing to note: If you look at the code view of their example, you’ll notice that you have to construct CSS sheets for those browsers that don’t support HTML 5 technologies. This can be a real time-killer when developing a site.
For those interested in pushing some of their CSS skills to the next level. There are some that utilize some Javascript/JQuery techniques as well for fluid layouts, or dynamic scrolling.
Check it out!
Here’s a quick overview on CSS 3 and it’s features. We will be writing CSS 1 and 2 code, as it is universally supported by all browsers that we talk about. CSS 3 still has little support among all of the browsers we are using, and therefore results vary for each. In a year or two, as support is built into the browsers, it is something to look into, but remember as well that with each new CSS 3 feature you add, you would have to support the older browsers by having to use code fixes for different browser types. This is not a generally accepted practice out in the industry, as it doesn’t support the “clean code” theory and web standards that are meant to make each user’s experience, regardless of their browser is the same.
When you install a new WordPress blog, to make sure that you are using a database that doesn’t have anything in it already.
Sadly, I lost 1 1/2 years of blog posts just because I decided that I could reuse a database. Oh the joys of managing content! I think I need a sign that says “Kick Me” just for what I did.
You live and you learn.